does torture work?

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Thursday November 17, 2005 · 1:52 PM PST

2005/11/17 · 13:52

i was just watching congressman murtha (on cnn with wolf blitzer) recite a revealing statistic that i have never heard before: since the abu ghraib scandal casualties have doubled. that just about says it all, doesn't it? 80% of iraqis now want us to leave. 45% say its justified to attack united states troops.

thank god that torture policy has lead to so much great intel to save our troops from the evil-doers' attacks! all that "hard work" sure has paid off! lyndie englund's doin' a heckuva job!

Faux news global warming report actually good!

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Sunday November 13, 2005 · 6:56 PM PST

2005/11/13 · 18:56

so i just finished watching faux news report on global warming with robert kennedy jr. and laurie david and i'm kinda speechless. it was actually pretty good. aside from the failure to mention that bush's "hydrogen plan" is derived from coal and therefor totally asinine i didn't really have any problems with it. they didn't try to pretend there is an argument over the science by legitimate scientists; they made the link to extreme weather events; they even discussed the connection to diseases like malaria and lyme, although somewhat glossed over, but over all pretty decent job...

which begs the question -- where are the four horsemen???
just what the hell is going on that faux would actually treat this subject in a (cough... choke...) "fair and balanced" manner? what do you think is behind this phenomenon?

maybe loofa-boy o'reilly knows something...

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Saturday November 12, 2005 · 11:54 AM PST

2005/11/12 · 11:54

have you heard about this?

A confidential memo circulating among senior Republican leaders suggests that a new attack by terrorists on U.S. soil could reverse the sagging fortunes of President George W. Bush as well as the GOP and "restore his image as a leader of the American people."

The closely-guarded memo lays out a list of scenarios to bring the Republican party back from the political brink, including a devastating attack by terrorists that could "validate" the President's war on terror and allow Bush to "unite the country" in a "time of national shock and sorrow."

The memo says such a reversal in the President's fortunes could keep the party from losing control of Congress in the 2006 midterm elections.

somebody should make a coffee table book of fucked-up republican memos like the one about getting out the christian "whacko" vote, or "osama determined to strike in the US"

if anyone has any more good ones please provide links

huge increase in democrats' lead in generic congressional average poll this week

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Thursday November 10, 2005 · 6:10 PM PST

2005/11/10 · 18:10

fox's poll has bush at 36% today so the real number must be close to the 20's! but what is of much more significance to our hopes for 2006 is the bump in the generic congressional average, which has risen considerably in the last week. i think that what harry reid and the dems have done in the last week by linking the leak scandal to the iraq war intel has shown the country that the party has a backbone, FINALLY!!

now we need the party to show that it has a unified message on issues important to the country and that the republicans have either ignored or fucked up, like energy policy, healthcare (and how it applies to the economy!), education, fiscal responsibility (remember the clinton SURPLUS!?)

we need to keep this momentum going...

pardon pledge -- libby won't flip without one

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Monday November 07, 2005 · 11:24 PM PST

2005/11/07 · 23:24

harry reid has called on the president to issue a no-pardon pledge for anyone involved in leaking valerie plame's idenity. if we are to get anywhere this fitzmas we have to keep the spotlight on this demand to the point that if bush did pardon libby or turdy the damage to the republican party would make up for the coal in our stockings. we really need to have msm reporters hammering mclellan on this like they have been about not "commenting on an ongoing investigation" when he already commented on it previously. we need reporters hounding the president about taking the pledge everywhere he goes. we need protesters in front of the white house making noise. we need talk shows discussing it. and finally we need to make sure our democratic senators unanimously support and sign reid's letter to the president.

Chimp and Essence - Bush's Struggle with the S-Word (w/ poll)

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Tuesday November 01, 2005 · 2:19 PM PST

2005/11/01 · 14:19

The theme du jour on Pumpkinhead's Sunday morning show (two days after a laconic Bush mumbled something about Libby's "great service" and then made a beeline for the getaway chopper like he was in a Chuck Norris movie on late night TV instead of the leader of the free world) referenced previous presidential mea culpas as a way for scandal ridden administrations to stop the bleeding, and suggested that the First Chimp might likewise benefit politically from publicly uttering the S-word. Now, the only person I've ever seen (over the age of 5) with a bigger aversion to saying "I'm sorry" would have to be The Fonz ("I'm sssss... I'm sss ss ssss ss... I'm ssssssssss ss sss sssssss... you know"); however, in this degenerating situation of public approval it is possible that one of the Chimp's trainers will teach him this difficult trick at some point, and when that happens you know that faster than a battered wife in a trailer court a certain percentage of American swing voters will forgive him and his poll numbers will start to climb back out of the cellar.

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I Heart Stupid People (with poll)

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Sunday October 30, 2005 · 10:59 AM PST

2005/10/30 · 10:59

Here, read this,

In the 24 hours after Fitzgerald's news conference, the survey and follow-up interviews found many Americans confused as to what, if anything, to make of the complicated indictment.
Ellen Mulligan, 34, a Republican and part-time art teacher who lives in Hamden, Conn., was one of these. "If I understood what happened, Vice President Cheney's adviser spoke to his wife and then she leaked the secret," Mulligan said. That is not an allegation in the indictment, but though Mulligan may not know exactly what happened, the scandal for her is both typical Washington and part of a broader pattern of ethical challenges in this administration.

And this woman actually watched the press conference!!! Can you even imagine...

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Email Your Congressman -- We Want Hearings on Treasongate!

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Saturday October 29, 2005 · 11:40 AM PDT

2005/10/29 · 11:40

If there is one thing that has been made abundantly clear this Fitzmas it is that the Bush administration cannot investigate itself. The corruption inside the White House is so pervasive, so Golem-like in it's totality that the light of truth hath not sufficient velocity to escape the dark event-horizon that shrouds its imploding black inner core.

Helen Thomas once asked Scott Mclellan why the president didn't just call his staff together and ask them who leaked Valerie Plame's status. Obviously, the answer to the question is that if he did that then he wouldn't be able to smear the prosecutor!

All kidding aside, Fitzgerald's consummate professionalism has taken that option off the table - which with this crowd is like telling Jerry Rice he's not allowed to run the slant anymore! (lots of sports metaphors these days...)

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Republicans Blame Clinton for Plamegate!! (with poll)

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Friday October 28, 2005 · 10:31 AM PDT

2005/10/28 · 10:31

i'm watching wolf blitzer' s round table discuss libby's indictments. begala goes first and gives a predictable democratic slant to the indictments and then the republican terry jeffery babbles what i hope and pray are what the republican talking points are going to be: he sheepishly admits that perjury and obstruction are "serious crimes" and then immediately starts talking about bill clinton getting threatened by a judge with contempt for not being straight with the grand jury about ten thousand years ago!! are you kidding me?

and that wasn't just some aside made off the cuff in the middle of some larger conversation, that was THE FIRST THING HE SAID!! if this is the best they can do then this is shaping up to be a very merry fitzmas indeed!

a couple of late night rants (so i can get some sleep, people!)

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Wednesday October 26, 2005 · 12:54 AM PDT

2005/10/26 · 00:54

rant #1) i had an argument with a republican today about iraq. the guy refused to accept even the slightest possibility that we were sending kids off to die there because of oil. what he said was that if we were really there for oil then we wouldn't be importing less oil from iraq now than we were before the war. i wonder if he got that from rush or o'reilly because it is just the kind of fatuous, myopic reasoning that frames most of the crap that comes out of their mouths every time they speak, and then i started to think about it and i realized that while the rushes of the world are pretty good at (mis-)using "facts" and "numbers" for their own vile purposes, we on the left don't always fully qualify or describe our assertions(basically because we are the type of people who know how to think for ourselves and therefore we just naturally assume that others have this same innate ability to at least understand the basic intellectual premises involved.)

we say the war is for oil but...

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a flipped powell+black jury pool= bad news for the defense

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Friday October 21, 2005 · 8:48 PM PDT

2005/10/21 · 20:48

david wallechinsky writes:

Hannah is already in trouble because he was the conduit for the fake intelligence about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction that came from Ahmed Chalabi and that was fed to the U.S. public by Judith Miller of The New York Times. It was also Hannah, along with Scooter Libby, who introduced Colin Powell to all of the phony information that he used in his disastrous speech to the United Nations justifying the invasion of Iraq.

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can rove be connected to niger document forgeries?

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Wednesday October 19, 2005 · 11:43 PM PDT

2005/10/19 · 23:43

got this from huff po

(this link is well worth reading in it's entirity)

Fitzgerald has reportedly asked for a copy of the Italian government's investigation into the break-in of the Niger embassy in Rome and the source of the forged documents. The blatantly fake papers, which purported to show that Saddam Hussein had cut a deal to get yellowcake uranium from Niger, turned up after a December 2001 meeting in Rome involving neo-con Michael Ledeen, Larry Walker, Harold Rhodes, and Niccolo Pollari, the head of Italy's intelligence agency SISMI, and Antonio Martino, the Italian defense minister.

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